3.  Chris Tyle’s Silver Leaf Jazz Band, “Canal Street Blues”

(Joe Oliver-Louis Armstrong)

For use with Lesson #4.

 

Style: Classic New Orleans

Personnel: Chris Tyle cornet, Leon Oakley cornet, Mike Baird clarinet, John Gill trombone, Steve Pistorius piano, Clint Baker banjo, Marty Eggers bass, Hal Smith drums.

Recorded in 1995.

Issued on Stomp Off CD1298.

This performance is patterned after the two-cornet sound of King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, which is heard in the next track. It is almost entirely an ensemble performance, and presents an instructive lesson in the use of dynamics, building through four outchoruses: the first at medium intensity, the second lower, the third lower still, and the fourth an all-out wail. The urgent cornet lead at 1:09 (first strain reprise) illustrates the sound of the pixie/plunger mute combination. The characteristic woody New Orleans clarinet tone and “slapped” bass are heard throughout this track, and some single-string banjo technique can be heard accompanying the clarinet solo.

Sequence for this track

0:00 Ensemble intro (4 bars)

0:06 First strain: ensemble

0:22 First strain repeat: ensemble

0:38 Second strain: ensemble

0:54 Second strain repeat: ensemble

1:09 First strain reprise: ensemble

1:25 Clarinet solo chorus

1:40 Clarinet second solo chorus

1:55 First outchorus: ensemble

2:11 Second outchorus: ensemble

2:26 Third outchorus: ensemble

2:41 Fourth outchorus: ensemble

2:56 Ensemble tag (2 bars)

Chris Tyle’s Silver Leaf Jazz Band